Thread: rtcomm update problem
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st5150 is offline st5150
2008-08-08 , 09:24
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Originally Posted by lorelei View Post
I still haven't found out what's new with this version, but it's very possible that it may have messed your pidgin install: one of the updated libraries from collabora repository is libpurple, which is used by Pidgin....

And it looks like Pidgin is also distributed by Collabora, so maybe it overwrote your install of Pidgin from another source? (I really don't know how AppManager manages these situations, but I suspect that it will try to install the latest version it finds, even if it comes from another source?)
Yeah, my mistake was probably installing the Collabora pidgin and libpurple0 update. I did a bunch of stuff to fix pidgin, unfortunately I don't remember it all. I was poking around. Basicly I had to uninstall pidgin and everything pidgin related. It ended up a smilies add-on was causing the install to break. After this I was able to do a apt-get install libpurple0 and I forget what else... apt-get install pidgin-data maybe? Anyways, even after I got pidgin installed, I couldn't launch it from personal menu. I had to remove the DBUS service name. It was a mess but I got it working at the end.